Sunday, March 13, 2005

Voters on S-S Marriage

Today’s Boston Globe includes poll results of 501 Massachusetts adults conducted by the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Survey Center March 5 through 8. It had questions on both same-sex marriage and stem-cell research. Let’s assume that neither topic nor the question phrasing skewed the results.

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The article's conclusions include:

Support for gay marriage comes primarily from Democrat's, those under 35 years of age, people with post-graduate educations, and those with no religious affiliation. Republicans are more likely to oppose gay marriage. Protestants were split on the issue, and Catholics opposed legalized gay marriage by 49-44 percent, within the margin of error.

(Andrew E. Smith, the UNH center’s director) said that the strong support from the 18-to-34-year-old age group shows that controversy over gay marriage will fade as older people who tend to oppose gay marriage begin to due.

The following results are for the same-sex-marriage set. I have paraphrased the much longer questions.